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Show F-iill Oi'i-wliifc Out or the Rock. A hardy apple tree, londed with ripe, luscious fruit, growing from tho crevices of a rock, is a curiosity which has attracted at-tracted the attention of visitors to Fair-uiouiit Fair-uiouiit park I 'trough the Cullowhill street entrance iliis summer. The tree, which is verv large, shoots up from the crevice of trfe rocks blasted to form the jhx)I for the pumping, at the Fairmounl water works. -. The apples on the tree nro tho beautiful beauti-ful rosy cheeked, yellow variety, and from their quality and size it would up-penr up-penr that there was some rich source of sustenance, though none Is visible from any point of view, the roots being pluinly pluin-ly seen clinging lo the rocky walls, shooting lu one crevice and out of another. an-other. Hundreds oT small boys try, day after day, lo procure specimens of ths fruit, but the isolated position of the tree bus thus fur saved it from their raids. PhiludcJphia Tdms |